TwitchFollowingOrganizer privacy policy

Last updated: 30 October 2026

TwitchFollowingOrganizer (TFW) is a browser extension that sorts the Twitch channels you follow into folders inside twitch.tv's sidebar. Your folders are saved on the TFW server so they appear in every browser where you sign in. This policy covers the extension and that server.

What the TFW server stores

• Your Twitch user ID, the number Twitch uses to identify your account. It is how the server knows which folders are yours.
• Your folders: the name you give each folder and its order.
• Where each channel goes: for every channel you have put in a folder, its Twitch user ID, the folder and its position in it.
• Two dates: when you first used TFW and when you last used it, so accounts nobody uses can be deleted (see below).

That is everything. The server does not store your Twitch username, display name, email address, the list of channels you follow, what you watch or your browsing history.

Your Twitch sign-in

You sign in with Twitch, which gives the extension an access token for one permission: reading the channels you follow (user:read:follows). TFW cannot post, chat, follow or change anything on your Twitch account.

The extension sends the token with each request to the TFW server. The server checks it with Twitch to learn your Twitch user ID, then discards it: the token is never saved. To avoid asking Twitch on every request, the server remembers for up to five minutes that a token is valid, filed under a one-way hash of the token, so the token itself cannot be read back from it.

What stays in your browser

• The Twitch token, in the extension's local storage. It is never synced to other devices and never shared with twitch.tv pages.
• A copy of your folders and of the channels you follow (names, pictures and who is live), so the sidebar shows up instantly. The extension gets the channel details straight from Twitch; they are not sent to the TFW server.
• Display preferences, such as which folders are collapsed, in twitch.tv's own site storage.

Versions of TFW before 1.0 saved favourite channels in Chrome's sync storage. TFW 1.0 does not read or send that data and leaves it where it is.

Who else handles your data

• Twitch, for sign-in and for the list of channels you follow. See Twitch's privacy notice.
• Cloudflare, which hosts the TFW server and its database. Like any web host, it processes technical details such as your IP address to deliver requests, and the server keeps operational logs for a few days to fix problems. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

TFW has no ads, analytics or tracking. Your data is never sold, shared with anyone else, or used for anything except showing your folders.

Keeping and deleting your data

• Delete it yourself, at any time. In the TFW folders on twitch.tv, open the menu (the three dots next to "Followed Channels") and choose "Delete my data". This deletes your account, folders and placements from the server at once, signs you out and clears the extension's copy in that browser. If TFW is still signed in on another browser, it starts a new, empty account the next time it is used there, so delete or sign out there too.
• Inactive accounts are deleted. If TFW has not been used with your Twitch account for 12 months, everything stored for it on the server is deleted automatically.
• Uninstalling the extension removes what it keeps in your browser. Your folders stay on the server, for your other browsers, until you delete them or they have been unused for 12 months.
• You can also withdraw TFW's access to your Twitch account in Twitch's settings, under Connections.

Chrome Web Store user data policy

TFW's use of information received from Twitch and from your browser follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Changes

If TFW starts storing anything new, this page is updated first, with a new date at the top. The history of every change is public in the TFW source code repository.

Contact

For questions about your data, open an issue on GitHub.